00:03Hitting the catwalk.
00:07Migrants and refugees from all over Africa now living in Logan and showcasing clothes
00:13they spent months making.
00:15We have trauma, torture, we have lost language, country, everything, but we are in this beautiful
00:21country.
00:22Esperant Niribara Hinyusa fled the Rwandan genocide in the 90s.
00:27Her husband and two children were murdered in a refugee camp just days before they were
00:32due to fly to Australia.
00:34I remember to meet my support worker at the airport and then she was crying to say where
00:39are the kids, where are the kids and then I said to her.
00:47After years of feeling isolated she started Women's Power for Inspiration.
00:52It provides a safe space to create fashion and seek help.
00:57It's a good place, it's a healing place because it healed many women, me too.
01:04This community is like we are home, it's our family, it's our future because we help each
01:12other in our needs.
01:14The charity founder says while the showcase will take a break next year due to financial
01:19issues, the women will still be getting together.
01:22It's not about dresses, it's about healing, healing from the problems and going out included
01:31in the community.
01:32Well thank you.
01:33So thank you for joining us.
01:33Everyone was in's houseision and
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